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Offline anweis

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.338 Federal brass?
« on: February 22, 2010, 09:52:36 AM »
I can't find brass for .338. Does this mean that i just run .308 brass through the .338 die?

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Re: .338 Federal brass?
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2010, 11:21:26 AM »
Dat's what I'd do.


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Re: .338 Federal brass?
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2010, 03:55:32 PM »
thats exacxtly what I did when I bought my .338 federal a couple of years ago. I caled and talked to a guy at Federal and asked about brass. He told me that they didn't have any plans at the time to release brass to the public. thats been a few years ago.
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Re: .338 Federal brass?
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2010, 06:25:26 AM »
That’s the main reason I went with then 338-06 A-Square because I can use 30-06 Springfield brass.

I also use 308 Winchester brass for hand loading my 7mm-08 Remington.

338 Federal will live forever, since it’s based off of the 308 Winchester.

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Re: .338 Federal brass?
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2010, 07:53:15 PM »
I just picked up a Tikka T3 Lite in this round, been really wanting one since it came out. About your post, I've been searching a lot on this recently and Federal is coming out with brass in July or August, Midway has listed up as "Coming Soon". Price seems fair at 23.99 for a bag of 50.